It seems this method has a security level different from the getStaticProperties method.
If you make two classes A and B looking like
<?php
class A{
protected static $static_var='foo';
public function getStatic(){
$class=new ReflectionClass($this);
return $class->getStaticPropertyValue('static_var');
}
public function getStatic2(){
$class=new ReflectionClass($this);
$staticProps=$class->getStaticProperties();
return $staticProps['static_var'];
}
public function __construct(){
echo $this->getStatic2();
echo $this->getStatic();
}
}
class B extends A{
protected static $static_var='foo2';
}
?>
Then the output will be an exception for the getStatic() call, when the getStatic2() will correctly return 'foo2';
